At the same time, articles like this one are insidious because they do advance the "lab leak hypothesis" without bringing any new information to the table. It's really a case of repeating something enough times so that, true or not, it becomes mainstream and accepted, which is exactly what the powerful interests pushing for that "hypothesis" are trying to achieve.

IMHO, considering the current global situation and the ramifications, the wise thing to do would be to invest in research and investigations but to stop making headlines on this unless something significant emerges one way or the other. Unfortunately, if there is one thing that is absolutely impossible in our modern, connected Western world that runs on social media and outrage it is silence.